A work in process. Thoughts, reflections and ideas on librarianship from the English-speaking Caribbean. Entries will be revised and edited as thoughts become clearer and sharper, until eventually they are perfectly expressed in writing.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Remodelling library education after medical eduation

At an ASIST student meeting we are talking about how
we can better integrate library practice with research. The issue of
library education being separated from the pracitce was also discussed.

One
person raised the issue of having library education being modelled
after medical education. Doctors who teach are situated in hospitals and
their students have days that they walk around with their teachers and
get to apply what they learn.

Why not have library
educators situated in libraries, and have some teaching days where
students are actually spending time doing work in the actual library?

About Me

I am from Kingston, Jamaica in the West Indies/Caribbean,where I did my
undergraduate and masters at the University of the West Indies, Mona
campus in Library & Information Studies. I possess also an interest in entrepreneurship, social media and recently artificial intelligent conversational/virtual agents.